Gothic architecture - a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches

He seemed to live for nothing but his religion; but there were some who said (notably the blacksmith, who was a Presbyterian) that it was a love of Gothic architecture rather than of God, and that his haunting of the church like a ghost was only another and purer turn of the almost morbid thirst for beauty which sent his brother raging after women and wine.

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The 18th century hall, said to be one of only a few remaining examples of Georgian Gothic architecture in England, had been left to crumble at times in the past and three of its main buildings are in varying states of disrepair.

Likewise, the book's discussion of Gothic architecture and its connection to current iterations of a Gothic aesthetic would have profited from some attention to Exuviae: A Fragmentary Grammar of Gothic, by the erudite Goth and architectural scholar James Rattue.

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